Folly (disambiguation)
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A folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration. It is also a synonym of foolishness, the lack of wisdom.
Folly may also refer to:
Places
- Folly Brook, a 2 1⁄4 miles (3.6 km) long brook in the London Borough of Barnet
- Folly Brook, a tributary of the River Frome, Bristol
- Folly Brook, a tributary of the River Clun, Shropshire
- Folly Farm Adventure Park and Zoo, a farm and visitor attraction in Pembrokeshire, Wales
- Folly Farm, Somerset, a traditionally managed visitable farm and nature reserve run by the Avon Wildlife Trust
- Folly Island, a barrier island in the Atlantic Ocean near Charleston, South Carolina
- Folly Beach, South Carolina, a city, located on historic Folly Island, in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
- Folly Island, New Zealand, a subantarctic island located in New Zealand's Campbell Island group
Other
- Folly (allegory), a common allegorical figure in medieval morality plays and in allegorical artwork through the Renaissance
- Folly (band), a band from Sussex, New Jersey
- Folly, a color one-fourth of the way between crimson and rose, closer to crimson than to rose
- "Folly", an 1886 statue by Edward Onslow Ford
- USS Folly (SP-1453), a sailing schooner that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel during World War I
- Yoann Folly (born 1985), French-born Togolese footballer
- Seward's Folly, another name for the purchase of Alaska
See also
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